Slimeball is too nice a word

Jeremy Roebuck of the Philadelphia Inquirer has an article asking: will Sandusky testify in his own defense?

Jerry Sandusky's attorneys are expected to begin laying out their case to jurors as their client's child sex abuse trial enters its second week.
Last week, eight young accusers testified that the former Pennsylvania State University assistant football coach molested them over periods spanning fifteen years. Jurors also heard accounts involving two other purported victims who prosecutors have yet to identify.
Sandusky, 68, has denied the charges, but which path his lawyers will take as they begin their case this week remains unclear. In his opening statements last Monday, Sandusky attorney Joseph Amendola suggested that his client's eight accusers had conspired together and made up their stories in hopes of eventually bringing civil lawsuits against Penn State's deep pockets. But he treaded softly in making that case while cross-examining the young men last week.
The defense list of possible witnesses includes Sandusky's wife, Dottie, one of his adopted sons, and family members of former Penn State head football coach Joe Paterno. Paterno, who died in January, lost his job over his handling of the Sandusky scandal. The university's board of trustees argued that he should have done more when allegations involving Sandusky's conduct with children were first brought to him in 2001.
Common Pleas Judge John M. Cleland also cleared the way for a defense expert in histrionic personality disorder to take the stand. Sandusky attorney Karl Rominger argued in court filings that the diagnosis, which is marked by excessive emotionality, can explain letters Sandusky wrote to one of his purported accusers, after the boy attempted to break off contact. On the witness stand last week, the young man, known as Victim Four, described them as "creepy love letters."
Cleland ordered Sandusky to undergo analysis from a prosecution psychologist over the weekend as a condition of letting the defense expert testify.
But largest question hanging over the defense is whether the former coach will testify himself. Amendola suggested that jurors would "hear from Jerry" during his opening remarks last week, but declined to elaborate on what he meant citing a judicial gag order.
Prosecutors signaled they had finished presenting the bulk of their evidence, but did not officially rest their case. Court could resume with a few final Commonwealth witnesses.

Rico says the prosecutors are undoubtedly hoping that Jerry'll get on the stand; they hope to eat him alive. (And is it just Rico, or does Jerry's Kids come to your twisted mind, too, along with the old Esquire question about Nixon: Why is this man smiling?)